Dancing into the gallery: Lucy Guerin Inc turns 21

LGI’s NEWRETRO remixes 21 years of choreographic practice.

22 Mar 2023

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

Lucy Guerin Inc’s ‘NEWRETRO’ at ACCA. Photo: Gregory Lorenzutti.

Choreographer Lucy Guerin has decided on a unique way to celebrate the 21^st anniversary of her contemporary dance company, Lucy Guerin Inc (LGI).

‘I had this idea that I wanted to take 21 works [from across 21 years] and just select excerpts and fragments of material from them and then reassemble them into a new work,’ Guerin explains.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts